The Sun-Sentinel has collected the recent pet food recalls into one easy-to-use online database. For more information on the recalls and to see if your pet's food is on the list, visit: Sun-Sentinel.com /petfood. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Blue Buffalo, a specialty pet food manufacturer, on Thursday recalled all Spa Select Kitten dry food carrying the production code "Best Used by Mar. 07 08 B." The product was made with rice protein concentrate purchased from the Wilbur-Ellis company and found to contain the industrial chemical melamine.

Here's a selection of mail-order gifts for the picky palate on your Christmas list. -- Venison-of-the-Month Club: a gift of deer for every month of the year. Price is $375 for enough to serve two people, $750 to serve four people. To order, or to receive a brochure, call 1-800-774-3337. -- Dallas' Mozzarella Co. also offers a food-of-the-month club, but in this case it's cheese, $240 for a 12-month subscription, $150 for six months. For a brochure, call 1-800-798-2954. -- Divine Delights is a purveyor of sweets in the mail.

I purposely did not write after your emu article first appeared, preferring to wait for the addled masses to voice their displeasure over an industry they know little or nothing about. Like it or not, the raising of alternative red meats for human consumption is alive and growing. In addition to emu, ostrich, boar, buffalo and venison (beware Bambi lovers) are all being raised for commercial sales. Many upscale markets and restaurants currently carry these items and sales increase daily.

Local chefs and restaurateurs took center stage at the Opening Night Party of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. The recent event was hosted at the Design Center of the Americas, Dania Beach, on Nov. 5. Members of Entre Nous, the festival's support group, put on the gala that attracted Hollywood celebrities including Lord Richard Attenborough, Annie Galipeau of Grey Owl, Tim Daly and Paul Lazarus of Seven Girlfriends and other visiting filmmakers....

Anybody who has seen a juniper tree (or bush; it's not what you'd call a really impressive tree) has noticed that it's covered with needles instead of leaves. Junipers are conifers - members of the cypress branch of that family, to be exact. Now, conifers don't produce berries; they bear cones. So botanically speaking, even though juniper berries are blue and fleshy, they're cones. Culinarily speaking, they're still berries, because that's how they're used in cooking. That is, they're added to things for a fruit sort of flavoring.

Even if you don't hunt, you can still enjoy game. Some supermarkets and specialty stores sell farm-raised game meat, such as rabbit, quail, pheasant and venison. That delicate wild flavor will be missing, but for those who appreciate game, it's better than eating chicken. Or, get wild game from a hunter friend. You'll likely have to do something special to get it away from him or her. Offer to wash your friend's car, mow the lawn or replace the roof. Admire your friend's fine shotguns and mounted game heads.

I recently received an e-mail message from Taiwan, written by my friend Penny Huang, who is 12, shortly after she returned from a trip to New Zealand with her mother, Judy, and younger sister Angel. It might be of interest to readers planning a trip down there. "Hello, we got back from New Zealand, it was fun. We suggest you go to these places: 1. Fox Glacier: It is a huge block of ice, and it looks dirty outside, but inside it is clean. Angel and I ate a lot of it! It's pretty cold at the beginning, but once you move you warm up. Angel won the race of climbing the Fox Glacier.